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No. 69 February iyj8

The Earl Warren family at the breakfast table, Piedmont, 1937- Parks Service who had themselves completed The Earl Warren Era memoirs with ROHO, urged their classmate to get started on his recollections. He agreed, In California with the proviso that the project be bounded by his California years, since he felt it in­ After eight years of research, interviewing, appropriate to comment on court activities. and transcribing the memoirs of one hundred Difficulties in funding delayed the inter­ and forty-six individuals, the Earl Warren views for several years, until in 1969 The Era Oral History Project, an undertaking of Friends of The Bancroft Library rescued a the Bancroft's Regional Oral History Office, matching, but rapidly expiring offer from is now almost completed. The idea for the the National Endowment for the Human­ series began in March, 1962 at the Library's ities. Other funds came from the Cortez So­ celebration for Chief Justice Warren and his ciety, former law clerks of the Chief Justice, colleagues from the Class of 1912; on that and many long-time friends of the popular occasion Newton Drury and Horace Al­ Governor. In addition, the Roscoe and Mar­ bright, both former directors of the National garet Oakes Foundation and the San Fran- cisco Foundation jointly sponsored a sub- questioned Patterson about the difference for village convention, she settled in Pittsburgh series of interviews with leaders of Califor­ him, a black, in his segregated school experi­ where she had "the freedom to spend one's nia's black community—an important aspect ence in Louisiana and in his subsequent in­ youth as one pleased." of Warren's own developing political per­ tegrated Sacramento school. Patterson recalls: While on the editorial staff of the Home spectives. Warren and I would discuss things like Monthly and later as a rewriter on the Daily Among the fifty-three volumes which this, that there is no such thing as be­ Leader, she continued her own writing, re­ have now been completed, and which are ing separate, from different schools, and sulting in the publication of her first volume available for study in the Library's Heller being equal, because so much is left out of stories, The Troll Garden, in 1905. In the Reading Room, are those dealing with the How you feel, your terms, your lan­ following year she moved to New York and internment of Japanese-Americans following guage, your way of thinking is different began her association with McClures Maga­ Pearl Harbor, cases and procedures in the from when you go to a school that is zine which was to last until 1912. Miss office of the District Attorney of Alameda mixed. When you go to a.ghetto school, Cather's first novel, Alexander s Bridge, pub­ County, state finance, executive agencies, where it is all black, you feel like you lished in that same year, bore evidence of labor relations, and political campaigns. just can't get across the railroad tracks. her careful reading of Henry James; it was Two volumes contain more entertaining but You can see the progress on the other a style that she quickly abandoned, as she not less insightful commentary from War­ side, but you can't reach it. turned to the materials of her own girlhood. ren's hunting and baseball buddies. When Patterson read the decision that War­ When she submitted O Pioneers! to Hough­ Amelia Fry served as project director, and ren wrote in the famous desegregation case ton Mifflin in 1913, her editor, Ferris Greens- was assisted in the interviews by other mem­ of Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education let, accurately forecast that it would "defi­ bers of ROHO's staff, including Malca Chall, in 1954 he heard some of the phrases from nitely establish the author as a novelist of the Gabrielle Morris, and Miriam Stein. She those earlier discussions. first rank." notes that throughout the specific issues and Earl Warren himself contributed about We are especially pleased to have in the events touched upon there were continuing eighteen hours of interviews to the project, Bancroft this strong representation, in such themes: Did Earl Warren really change with each staff interviewer taking part. Many excellent state, of Willa Cather's work, for when he became Chief Justice? What poli­ of the memoirists contributed personal pa­ it enhances an association with the American cies in his California years anticipated or pers, pictures, and memorabilia which were novelist which goes back more than four contradicted his decisions on the bench? used to create an exhibition, "The Warren Willa Cath decades. At the University's Charter Day How did California remain fiscally sound Era in California," first shown in the Uni­ celebration on March 23d, 1931, Miss Cather throughout rapid expansion of state services, versity Library and later in the State Capitol was awarded an honorary degree (her second, the most massive immigration anywhere in on the Rock (1931), Lucy Gay heart (1936), and only the fourth which the University at Sacramento. These items, in addition to and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). recent history, a depression, a war, a post-war scrapbooks, videotapes, news films, and cam­ had awarded to a woman) whose text reads, adjustment, and another war? How could Now all of her works in first editions, many in part: paign papers have all enriched the holdings with original dust jackets, together with Warren win landslide state elections as a of The Bancroft Library. non-partisian candidate when every four biographies, memoirs, and criticism, com­ Willa Cather, self-controlled and ele­ years he led the state's Republicans in the prising forty-nine volumes, along with the vated delineator of life on the western plains and in the Spanish southwest, presidential contests? The Complete Willa Cather signed photograph herein reproduced, have been given to The Bancroft Library by Mrs. who at a time when literature is pre­ Some of the most intriguing interviews do vailingly matter-of-fact has not lost not lend themselves easily to classification. More than half a century has passed since Roberton E Williams of Piedmont. Born in Virginia in 1873, Willa Cather sight of idealism and nobility ... One such memoir is the volume by Edgar Willa Cather's distinguished novel of the At the time of this award Miss Cather was James Patterson, now a retired counselor- American Southwest, Death Comes for the spent her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and it was from her memories of that prairie the houseguest of the University's President, psychotherapist at Vacaville, who as a young Archbishop, appeared in Alfred A. Knopf's Robert Gordon Sproul, and his wife. Many man guarded the governor's mansion, chauf- by-then-familiar green cloth binding. For countryside that she drew most heavily for her early novels: O Pioneers! (191 ry),T he Songyear s later, in a memoir completed by the fered the chief executive (and, to their dis­ many of her readers and for the majority of Bancroft's Regional Oral History Office, Mrs. may, his six school-age children), delivered critics it has represented the capstone of a of the Lark (1915), and My Antonia (1918). She entered the University of Nebraska in Sproul recalled this particular distinguished Mrs. Warren's ubiquitous chocolate cakes, brilliant literary career, which had begun visitor: and advised, harangued, and generally with the publication, in 1903, of April Twi­ 1891 and while there published her first romped with the children. It was his long lights, a volume of poems issued in a small prize story, co-authored with Dorothy Can- She was very much a recluse and really drives through the California countryside, edition which has become one of the most field, in The Sombrero, the student year­ didn't want to meet people. She didn't with the Governor under pressure of deci­ eagerly sought items of rare works by Willa book, a copy of which is included in this come downstairs for tea, even; we sent sion-making and their ensuing cabbages- Cather. After 1927, during the remaining gift. Following graduation and newspaper it up to her. She was an extremely quiet and-kings conversations, that mark a unique twenty years of her life, Miss Cather pub­ work in Lincoln, and feeling restricted by and pleasant person. I liked her. friendship. On several occasions Warren lished but three additional novels, Shadows

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) Copyright 1978 The Friends of the Bancroft Library tions were piled up indiscriminately in found a kind of "Hurly Burly" sort of in English. Given by anonymous donors, the Californiana of the huge masses .. .When Washington affair, animated, lively, and laughable. Tollemache Codex pre-dates and comple­ Street on the Plaza took fire, large por­ Instead of this I found it to the contrary, ments another Wycliffite New Testament of 1840's and the 1850's tions of these goods were consumed, the music (a guitar accompanied by a the early fifteenth century that the Library and the scene presented was terrible sor­ person's voice) was performed in a was fortunate enough to obtain some years If I were asked to name the most healthy rowful and often amusing... Several chanting style. The Ladies were very ago from the collection of Isaac Foot. The atmosphere in the world and the best persons, some "Sydney Ducks," were sedate, their countenances as inanimate only other such manuscript on the west for an invalid, I should select San Fran­ caught plundering and were immedi­ as their movements, which consisted coast is in the Huntington Library in San cisco. ately taken to the quarters of the Vigi­ of short measured steps... the gentle­ Marino. So writes Lieutenant William A. Parker of lance Committee. men performing all the necessary move­ The new Bancroft codex itself is particu­ the U. S. Ship Cyane in 1842. Parker's log Much of the latter portion of Bickham's jour­ ments and con torsions of the body — larly noteworthy, for it is one of a very few is only one of a fascinating group of sixteen nal is concerned with an account of the ac­ the Lady as bolt upright and unyielding large and elegant copies, written in a fine journals, diaries, and other manuscripts re­ tivities of the Vigilance Committee, material as a marble statue. hand, with fourteen illuminated page- cently acquired from the collection of the which he put to good use later as editor of J. S. Ackerman describes his voyage borders alternating with thirteen page- late Jennie Crocker Henderson of San Fran­ the Evening Journal and the Evening Pica­ aboard the Daniel Webster and his life in the borders in red and blue pen-work. Most cisco. While the majority of these materials yune. mines, with interesting observations on the copies of the Wycliffite version, including relate to the California Gold Rush, the The journal of John H. Clark is a fresh camps of the Indians and their method of Parker log is of the preceding period and and detailed record of the company of salmon fishing. Ackerman's sojourn in the nicely complements the William H. Meyers twenty he and his partner, Andrew Brown, mines was one of continual hardship how­ Journal (described in the issue of Bancroft­ led across the plains in 1852. It was written ever ("put through the cradle 200 buckets of iana for May, 1956), giving details of for his wife, Margaret, who had remained dirt which has yielded the enormous sum of Thomas ap Catesby Jones' premature an­ in Ohio, and contains candid and unaffected Two Dollars and seventy-five cents") and he nexation of Monterey in 1842. Parker also views of his experiences. John Henry Nash left for Sacramento, and later San Francisco, describes visits to other ports along the Pa­ at one time considered this fine journal for where he began working in the American cific coast and in Hawaii, and includes a sub­ publication, and his printer's dummy with Theater as a prompter. He could not resist stantial commentary on California Indians. title and sample pages accompanies the man­ trying his luck once again, only to find him­ Sacramento, which became an important uscript as a unique example of design by self poorer than ever: center serving as gateway for the mines, is that distinguished typographer. Another We have worked as hard as men could described by more than one of the diarists proposed Nash publication, again with a work and yet we have made nothing. in this collection. Charles S. Bolles, in the printer's dummy and specimen pages, is the We get just a living and that is all. "Log Book of the Bark Selma," pictures the "Journal of a Voyage from New Bedford to M. Brainard, in a letter written on Christ­ scene at the time of the flood in January, San Francisco upper California April 1 to mas Day, 1852, concludes: "If I ever git 1850: "Through the night people were call­ September 22, 1849." Although the uniden­ home I will be contented with good health ing for 'Boats'.. .early this morning all of our tified author ends his account shortly after and a moderate gain." boats were out taking people off from the his arrival in San Francisco, he has vividly This important collection has been pur­ tops of buildings and wood piles." The ques­ described the passage of one hundred and chased with funds contributed by The tion of land ownership, which has figured seventy-four days and given character Friends of The Bancroft Library, supple­ so largely in California's history, is reflected sketches of fellow passengers as well as in­ mented by the Theodore R. Meyer Memo­ in the letters of one M. Burke, in which he formation on California and the gold fields, rial Fund and the Chancellor's Opportunity records the "Squatters' Riots" in Sacramento gleaned from port calls and from ships en­ Fund. These journals and diaries provide and notes his determination to "squat and countered during the voyage. valuable observations on human conditions fight for it until the government decides the Another anonymous account includes a during the fascinating era that marked the land is Squatters." full description of the sea voyage aboard the beginnings of today's California. William D. Bickham, in his "Notes of Gold Hunter, sailing from Bangor, Maine. Travel," describes his mining activities at After his arrival in California, the diarist Spanish Bar and at Murderer's Bar inhabited spent most of his time on the construction of 14th Century Manuscript the fort at Benicia, but he also records a trip by claim jumpers "guzzling rum and swag­ of the New Testament gering about in fine style." Later, on June to Mount Diablo, comments upon a local 22d, 1850, Bickham writes a graphic ac­ election, reports on an Indian massacre at This past Christmas The Bancroft Library count of one of the fires that plagued San Clear Lake, and tells of a fandango at Mar­ received a major gift in the form of an out­ Francisco during that period: tinez : standing fourteenth century manuscript of The scene on the Plaza beggared all I was very much disappointed in the the Wycliffite version of the New Testament description. Merchandise of all descrip- "Fandango" dance; I expected to have [ 4] [5] the Bancroft's fifteenth century manuscript, The Tollemache Codex is in excellent con­ vice overseas during World War I, Totheroh among them Rough an Ready, Flamenca, are small in size, written in a cramped hand, dition; there are no markings or other signs decided, on his return to the Bay Area, that Johnny Appleseed, and Rip of the Moun­ and intended for private use, while the large of use such as often are found in the smaller he was also interested in writing and direct­ tain, as well as adaptations of Alice in Won­ copies were produced for noblemen or copies. This truly magnificent manuscript, ing. He became involved in the little thea­ derland, Kismet, and Peer Gynt. wealthy merchants, relatively few of whom outstanding in both size and decoration, is a ter movement and took part, as well, in the A versatile and prolific author, he also espoused the beliefs for which the Bible was most welcome and valuable addition to the Greek Theatre productions on the Berkeley wrote several novels, a number of screen made. The earliest mention of Bancroft's Library's extensive collection of early bibles. campus. In 1922 his play, Wild Birds, a plays, including The Count of Monte Cristo, codex was in the First Report of the Royal tragedy with the midwest farm setting, won The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Dawn Commission, published in London in 1870. first prize in a University-sponsored play- Patrol, and stories and plays for children. Its mid-sixteenth century binding, with writing contest judged by Eugene O'Neill, First and foremost, however, was his love enameled covers decorated by large center George Jean Nathan, and Susan Glaspell. of the theater, and during his later years he and corner pieces and the notation The University production in Wheeler Hall utilized his directing talents not only with "Helmingham" on the spine, and the signa­ in 1923 was so successful that it was pro­ the mountain players, but also with the ture "Lyonel Tollemach" on the front fly­ duced in San Francisco, and, in 1925, opened Wharf Theatre at Monterey and the Cove leaf, indicate that the manuscript early came in New York, winning considerable acclaim Players at Tiburon. Professionally active al­ into the possession of the Tollemache family, and being included by Burns Mantle in his most to the end, he died in 1976. residing in Helmingham Hall, Suffolk from list of best plays of that year. The multi-faceted career of this talented the early sixteenth century to the present When the text of the play was published, man is well represented in the collection of time. Eugene O'Neill permitted his evaluation of papers, books, and photographs which he A significant translation, the Wycliffite the work to be quoted on the dust jacket, presented to The Bancroft Library shortly version was influential in English literary a practice he usually refused to allow unless, before his death. A modest man and a gener­ and religious history. Once attributed di­ as he wrote to Totheroh, "... it is a very ous one, he did not systematically save his rectly to John Wycliff, leader of the Lollards, exceptional case — which, I think, has only papers and gave away much during his life­ an ecclesiastical reform movement, it ap­ happened three times in all." His tribute, "a time. However, the correspondence, includ­ pears more probable that both Old and New truly imaginative piece of writing, soundly ing letters from Helen Gahagan Douglas, Testaments were the work of his disciples, conceived and carried through with a dis­ Melvyn Douglas, Beulah Bondi, and other one of whom, John Purvey, created the text, tinctive touch," reaffirmed for the play-read­ actors appearing in his plays, as well as the in 1388, which is used in both of the Ban­ ing public what the theater critics said manuscripts, production stills and other pho­ croft copies. The language reflects the vigor­ earlier. tographs, scrapbooks, and published writings ous English of the late fourteenth century, Dan Totheroh by fohan Hagemeyer, 1941 In succeeding plays which appeared over all serve as a fitting memorial and will prove which was also the age of Chaucer, who the years on Broadway — Distant Drums, to be a rich source of information for thea­ wrote about the Lollards. Purvey's version Dan Totheroh: A Man Moor Born, Mother Lode, Searching for the ter historians. is remarkably modern in its approach to Sun, and Live Life Again — he established problems of translation, since his "Prolog" of the Theater himself as a writer of integrity and aspira­ proposes gathering together many old Bibles tion. And those plays which never reached Recent Exhibitions and reviewing their glosses to form the best Dan Totheroh—actor, playwright, director, New Y>rk found enthusiastic productions Latin text which is then submitted to other and novelist—was intimately connected with in regional theaters and little theater groups. During the thirty-eight days when the scholars for correction before creating the the theater throughout most of his long During his early post-war years in Cali­ Library's Gallery was open to visitors be­ English translation. productive life. Born in Oakland in 1894, fornia, Totheroh also began a long associ­ tween October 17th and November 30th, a That this version should have been pro­ he started attending theatrical performances ation with the production of the annual total of two thousand six hundred and fifty- duced by the Lollards is not surprising, for a in San Francisco at an early age, wrote his "mountain plays" staged in the amphithea­ four people viewed the exhibition, "The basic tenet of this movement was the con­ first play in high school, and went from ter on Mount Tamalpais. In Tamalpa, writ­ Printed Book in America." Created by the cept that the Bible provided the only reli­ there directly onto the professional stage, ten specifically for the Mountain Play notable typographer Joseph Blumenthal for able rule of life. Begun under the leadership acting with Nance O'Neil in stock at San Association in 1920, he created the "legend" display at the Dartmouth College Library, of "poor priests," Lollardry attacked clerical Francisco's Alcazar Theatre and graduating of the sleeping Indian maid of the mountain, where it was shown earlier in 1977, the ex­ abuses and ecclesiastical property; its goal to lead parts while still in his teens. He also with purely imaginary characters. Those hibition was also seen at the Olin Library of was the practice of poverty by the Church began writing vaudeville sketches, toured who saw the first production, however, as­ Cornell University before reaching Berkeley. as exemplified by Christ. But, as an examina­ the Pantages and Orpheum vaudeville cir­ sumed the play was based on a genuine The seventy books chronicled achievements tion of the Tollemache Codex shows, it cuits in the leading role of his one act play, legend of the Tamal Indians, and this as­ of scholarship, artistry, and craftsmanship by maintained the liturgical life of the Church, Pearls, and eventually played the Palace in sumption grew through the years, with the sixty-one American printers, from the work and Wycliff himself died from a stroke while New York. play being a favorite in the repertory. Tothe­ of Isaiah Thomas and Benjamin Franklin hearing Mass. His acting career interrupted by his ser- roh never lost interest in the mountain plays to leading typographers of the present day, and wrote, and often directed, several more, including four who were present at the open- [6] [7 ing reception on Sunday afternoon, October Mr. Power, the Hondius America Noviter graduate studies at German or eastern uni­ 16th — William Everson, Andrew Hoy em, Delineata, a map of 1624, described in the Chemists at Berkeley versities, and the best he could say for his Jack Stauffacher, and Adrian Wilson. In ad­ issue of Bancroftiana for May, 1975. The assumption that service to the state of own laboratory was that it was the most dition, the exhibition included proof sheets, The current exhibition, which opened on California ought to be a part of the profes­ complete "this side of Chicago." illustrations, and books from the Bancroft's January 15th, marks the first time that the sor's lot may be given perspective by a letter In 1912 Gilbert Newton Lewis was called collections, selected by Irene Moran, who complete Joseph M. Bransten Coffee & Tea which Willard Bradley Rising, Dean of the from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ was responsible for the installation. Collection, now numbering more than one College of Chemistry, wrote to the Uni­ nology to become Dean of the College, and Accompanying the exhibition, by way of hundred individual titles, has been shown. versity's President, Martin Kellogg, on Janu­ he in turn recruited such outstanding men explanation and further illumination, was This group of volumes dealing with the his­ ary 28th, 1897: as Joel Hildebrand and William Crowell Mr. Blumenthal's handsomely-printed text, tory, sociology, and philosophy of the two Demands are constantly made upon me Bray, both of whom have placed their per­ The Printed Book in America. Copies of this beverages has been gathered over a period for the analysis of waters, foods, food- sonal papers in the Library. Those of Bray work may be purchased directly from the of twenty years, and reflects an interest, by products, for advice in regard to chem­ have also recently been catalogued. Like Library; checks in amount Thirty Dollars a native San Franciscan, in one of that city's ical industries, etc. on this coast. It is Rising, Bray completed his graduate work (plus appropriate tax) payable to The leading industries, which sprang up during almost impossible to refuse these re­ in Germany, and returned to accept a posi­ Friends of The Bancroft Library may be sent the early Gold Rush years and led to the quests, and it is just as impossible to tion at M.I.T before coming to Berkeley. to the attention of the Secretary. establishment of several of the nation's larg­ comply with them, no matter how will­ Of his initial appointment, one of Bray's est coffee and tea companies. In keeping with ing I may be. The public feels that it colleagues, Colin G. Fink, wrote to him on the occasion, Mr. Bransten provided gener­ has the right to advice and help from December 27th, 1905: ous servings of both refreshments to the this department because it contributes Y)u were very fortunate, I am sure, to large gathering of Friends. The exhibition to the support of the University. get this present position in Boston... for will continue through March 4th. Rising's correspondence and papers, now just imagine being out in Ann Arbor... The Library's Joseph C. Rowell Case, in catalogued and available for research, com­ or way off in some godforsaken western which are displayed materials from the Uni­ prise only one of several collections of papers state! versity Archives, now houses an exhibition of Berkeley chemists held in the Manuscripts However, some scholars were beginning to entitled "Student Publications: Some Ex­ Division, and together with documents in see that there were advantages to being away amples from 1868 to the Present." Begin­ the University Archives provide an overall from established schools on the eastern sea­ ning with the issue of The College Echo view of the College of Chemistry in its first board, and Bray followed Lewis to Berkeley. published by students of the University's century. His papers reflect a major change that had predecessor, the College of California, in occurred in the first quarter of this century Since Rising had to spend time for analy­ at the University of California; like Rising January, 1868, the exhibition includes more ses, there remained little opportunity for him than thirty titles ranging from the bogus he devoted a good deal of his time to teach­ to further his knowledge through basic re­ ing, but he was able to devote the remainder newspapers of the 'teens, The Raspberry search, such as his colleagues in eastern uni­ Press and The Dill Pickle, to such current to basic research. The public service element versities were doing. However, despite this, had been taken over by other agencies and periodicals as The Berkeley Graduate, Tim­ former students seemed to feel that the in­ ber, and The California Law Review. The the faculty was now free to develop outstand­ struction received at Berkeley was very good. ing graduate programs. By the second dec­ early issues of The Pelican contain the first Felix Lengfeld was completing his doctoral Robert H. Power presenting the Hondius mapof Rubto e Goldberg's cartoons, many of whose ade of the twentieth century the College had fames D. Hart in the Director's Office. (Photo by studies at Johns Hopkins when he wrote to come of age. originals are in the Bancroft's collections. Rising on January 9th, 1887: fohn Gorman, courtesy San Francisco Examiner.)This exhibitio n may be seen through March. ... further observation of the graduates On December nth the annual Christmas We should like again to mention the post of other colleges has confirmed me in Pioneering in City Exhibition of Gifts to the Library was opened card announcements which are mailed prior the belief that a graduate of the U. C. with another reception, whose highlight was to each exhibition. Each card is designed College of Chemistry ranks with any of Planning the presentation by Mr. Robert H. Power and printed by different local craftsmen and them and far above most of them. He of Nut Tree of the rare Hondius Vera Totius reflects an individual stylistic approach to will have done more analytical work Catherine Bauer Wurster was Professor of Expeditionis Nautica, printed in London in the presentation of essentially the same sort than any of them and will have a far City and Regional Planning and Associate 1589. Only six copies of the map are known of text. The creator of each is identified on better and more thorough knowledge of Dean of the College of Environmental De­ to exist, and the Library's new acquisition is the card by name or press mark, except that chemical principles, organic and inor­ sign at the University of California at the the only copy held by a public institution in by Andrew Hoy em for the Christmas 1977 ganic, than most of them possess. Al­ time of her untimely death on November the United States. Perhaps the most inter­ exhibition. Many of the Friends are pre­ together I have every reason to feel truly 22d, 1964, while hiking near Mt. Tamalpais esting feature of the work, for Californians, serving these in suitable albums both for proud of our College of Chemistry . .. in Marin County. Although she often com­ is the inset "Portus Novae Albionis," depict­ their handsome appearance and as further But Rising knew that the success of his stu­ mented that she became a housing expert ing Drake's landing place on this coast. The record of the Library's wide range of exhibi­ dents depended upon their acceptance for accidentally by winning a $1000 prize for map nicely complements another gift of tion material. 8] [9] an article on housing, her education and the report of the President's Commission on Playmakers, particularly to the prize that he early activities indicate that any other career National Goals which was published in i960. helped fund as an award for the best play; it would have been unlikely. Born in Elizabeth, At the time of her death she was a member was his suggestion that the award be named New Jersey in 1905, she attended the Vail- of President Johnson's task force on metro­ to honor Professor Baker. Replying to an in­ Deane School and then Vassar College. In politan and urban problems. vitation to attend an opening performance, her junior year she transferred to the School The papers of Catherine Bauer Wurster, O'Neill declines and notes: of Architecture at Cornell University, but a gift several years ago from her husband to To sit in any theatre audience is a ner­ returned to Vassar to graduate in 1926. the College of Environmental Design and vous ordeal for me and I've given it up Following several years of travel and some recently transferred to The Bancroft Library, altogether. Meaning no disrespect for writing about modern architecture, she be­ are now being processed and will soon be the theatre. It's just my idiosyncrasy. came seriously interested in what was to be available for use in the Heller Reading Room. The Berkeley Playmakers seem to have her life's work—the social aspects of housing The collection consists of forty-six boxes of become a casualty of World War II, and in and city planning. She published numerous correspondence and forty-nine cartons of December, 1947, the organization disbanded articles, engaged in research in Europe and manuscripts, subject files, notes and clip­ and transferred its assets, consisting of in the United States, and served as executive pings. They document the productive life of $91.25, to the local March of Dimes. secretary of the Regional Planning Associa­ a woman who is perhaps best described by a tion of America. Her book, Modern Archi­ contemporary: "A mind of great intellectual A Salt Mountain! tecture, published in 1934, was the first com­ capacity, a speaker of distinction and per­ prehensive analysis of European housing in suasion and a personality which reflects a Among the books and pamphlets brought relation to similar developments in the deep social consciousness, an awareness of together in his library more than a century United States, and remains today a standard the human factors in the housing of people." ago by Hubert Howe Bancroft is a forty- reference work. page document that, from its title, An Ac­ In 1936 she received the first Guggenheim The Berkeley Play makers count of Louisiana, Being an Abstract of Foundation award ever given in the fields Documents, in the Offices of the Depart­ of architecture or housing. This enabled her The Library's expanding theater collection ments of State, and of the Treasury, and its to study housing in England, Russia and has been recently augmented by the pur­ date, 1803, would seem to be of no more than the Scandinavian countries until she was chase of a small but comprehensive archive peripheral interest to a collection of western forced home by the onset of World War II. of The Berkeley Play makers. Growing out Americana. Nevertheless, it can be argued Her other activities during this period in­ Catherine Bauer Wurster, 193J of the summer session classes in playwriting that it is the introduction to everything cluded serving as consultant to numerous taught by Professor George Pierce Baker in printed thereafter concerning the vast region federal agencies such as the Farm Security rows about power and land planning; and in 1924, The Playshop, as it was first called, beyond the Mississippi. Administration and the Public Works Ad­ Democratic politics, etc., until Bill dragged modeled itself after Baker's famous "47 By 1803 Thomas Jefferson had been Presi­ ministration. In the winter of 1936-37 she me east to Cambridge" when he was Workshop" at Harvard. The plays were writ­ dent of the United States for two years. His was on the Board of Design for the upcom­ appointed Dean of Architecture and City ten, directed, acted, and set by the members abiding interest in the western country had ing New York World's Fair. Working with Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Tech­ themselves; later, prizes were offered for the led him to organize an expedition, headed members of Congress and with labor union nology and she became a lecturer in the De­ best scripts, and one of the winners, in 1937, by his secretary, Meriwether Lewis, whose leaders, she participated in the preparation, partment of Regional Planning at Harvard was Betty Smith, then working on a Federal purpose was to find a way across the conti­ promotion, and passage of the Housing Act University. In 1950 she joined the faculty Theater project at the University of North nent, although the western boundary of the of 1937, tne first American social legislation of the Department of City and Regional Carolina, long before she achieved fame with United States was fixed at the Mississippi in the field of low rent housing and slum Planning at Berkeley when her husband was her best-selling novel, A Tree Grows in River. Then, as a result of European, and clearance. From 1937 to 1939 she served as appointed Dean of the School of Architec­ Brooklyn. particularly Napoleonic power politics, that first director of the U. S. Housing Authority. ture here. The archive consists of a large scrapbook boundary suddenly shifted westward an in­ Catherine Bauer came to the University of In addition to the demands of an academic album including production photographs, determinate distance, perhaps even to the California as Rosenberg Lecturer in Public career she lectured frequently at other uni­ programs, minutes of the executive board, Pacific Ocean. Social Services in January, 1940, and in versities, delivered keynote addresses for nu­ news clippings, and seventeen letters from This sudden shift, known ever since as August of that year was married to William merous housing and planning conferences, Betty Smith as well as correspondence from the Louisiana Purchase, began as a mild Wilson Wurster, a prominent San Francisco served as consultant to various state, federal, Frederick H. Koch, director of the Carolina effort by Jefferson to gain control of the city architect. She has described herself during and international agencies including the Playmakers at Chapel Hill and from Car- of New Orleans in order to open the Missi­ the next few years as "happily engaged in United Nations, and wrote innumerable lotta Monterey O'Neill. There is also a ssippi Valley to international trade. The west­ miscellaneous teaching and writing; in help­ pamphlets and articles. She received a grant group of nine letters written by Eugene ern side of the Valley and Louisiana, once ing run the California Housing and Plan­ in 1959 to study urban housing problems in O'Neill from Tao House, his home in Dan­ claimed by France, had been Spanish since ning Association; in taking sides in the India, and wrote the housing and commun­ ville, between the years 1939 and 1942, re­ 1763 but in 1800 had passed again to French Columbia Basin and Central Valley project ity planning section of Goals for Americans, lating to the activities of The Berkeley sovereignty; by 1802 Napoleon had adopted [lO "I the view that the immediate value of the tarum Constructus, made in Nuremburg, is region lay in its possible hindrance to fur­ one of the rarities of the Bancroft's growing ther British expansion in North America, collection of cartographic materials. Measur­ and its sale would produce, as well, some ing only sixty-six millimeters (about two needed ready cash. and one-half inches) in diameter, the globe Almost without notice, and for the bar­ is enclosed in a spherical, gold-stamped gain price of eleven million dollars, this vast leather case, with brass hinge and clasp. The area became a part of the United States. So case is lined with a celestial map, Globus little was known, however, about the coun­ Coelestis: Juxta Observationes Parisienses try, its resources, its inhabitants, or even its Exhibetus. extent that Jefferson found difficulty in de­ Dating from about 1715, when Homann scribing to his fellow citizens what it was he was geographer to the Holy Roman Em­ had bought for them. The Account of Loui­ peror, the Hapsburg, Charles VI, the globe siana is an official attempt to provide a sum­ is in very fine condition and may be unique mary of the knowledge then in the possession in an American collection, for no work by of the United States government in the Homann is listed in Ena Y)nge's A Cata­ spring of 1803. It was printed at about the logue of Early Globes Made Prior to 1850 same time in Albany, Baltimore, Carlisle and Conserved in the United States, pub­ (Pennsylvania), Philadelphia, Providence, lished in 1968. It came to the Bancroft when Raleigh, Washington, and Wilmington. the former Department of Rare Books and The Account was sometimes accompanied Special Collections was transferred from the by an appendix consisting of a translation of University Library in 1970, but unfortu­ the laws promulgated in New Orleans in nately no record of its provenance has sur­ 1795. In describing the boundaries of Loui­ vived. siana, the work hesitantly states that "... Pocket globes became popular in England westwardly of the Mississippi, though very in the seventeenth century, and remained in extensive [the boundaries] are at present vogue for some time. Although so minute a involved in some obscurity." There was more globe provides only limited geographical in­ definite information for the settled region formation, it will prove of much interest to around New Orleans and along the lower students of the history of cartography and stretches of the River, but the farther dis­ printing. tances were much less well known, although quite marvelous: There exists about 1000 miles up the Missouri, and not far from the river, a Salt Mountain! ... This mountain is said to be 180 miles long, and 45 in COUNCIL OF THE FRIENDS width, composed of solid rock salt, with­ William P. Barlow, Jr. Mrs. Edward H. Heller out any trees, or even shrubs on it... Chairman Kenneth E. Hill [Moreover] that part of Upper Loui­ Kenneth K. Bechtel Preston Hotchkis Miss Mary Woods Warren R. Howell siana, which borders on North Mexico, Bennett John R. May is one immense prairie; ... the land is Henry Miller Bowles Atherton M. Phleger represented as too rich for the growth Mrs. Jackson Chance Harold G. Schutt of forest trees. E. Morris Cox Norman H. Strouse Henry K. Evers Mrs. Calvin K. Townsend Incomplete, inadequate, naive as it was, James M. Gerstley Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr. the pamphlet is nevertheless a symbol of the Mrs. Vernon L. Goodin Brayton Wilbur, Jr. emergence of a continental United States. James D. Hart George P. Hammond, Honorary Homann Pocket Globe Editor, Bancroftiana: J. R. K. Kantor Johann Baptist Homann's pocket globe of Contributors to this issue: Robert H. Becker, Amelia Fry, R. Philip Hoehn, Mary Ellen Jones, the world, Globus Terrestris: Juxta Observa­Ann Pfaff-Doss, Estelle Rebec, William Roberts, tions Parisienses Regiae Academiae Scien-Patrick J. Russell, Jr.

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